It's a Nice Day to Be Alive

It's a Nice Day to Be Alive
Studio album by
Poetic Ammo
Released23 February 1998 (1998-02-23)
Recorded1996 – 1997
Studio
  • Playtime Studios
  • Carrybase Studios
Genre
Length71:54
Label
Producer
Poetic Ammo chronology
It's a Nice Day to Be Alive
(1998) 		The World is Yours
(2000)
Singles from It's a Nice Day to Be Alive
  1. "Everything Changes"
    Released: 5 January 1998

It's a Nice Day to Be Alive is a debut studio album by Malaysian hip hop group, Poetic Ammo, released on 23 February 1998 by Positive Tone and EMI Music Malaysia.[1][2][3] The album was a huge commercial success and propelling Poetic Ammo to fame. It is most widely known for the song "Everything Changes", the group's first and most successful single.

Production

The album was recorded by Poetic Ammo between 1996 and 1997.[4] Prior to the album's release, the group released two singles under Positive Tone – "Run" and "Only You" at the time they performed as Poetic Ammunition in 1994.[5][6] After MC Ena left the group in 1996, Yogi B recruited Point Blanc and brothers Landslyde and C. Loco and renamed Poetic Ammunition as Poetic Ammo. The group spent most of 1996 to record It's a Nice Day to Be Alive.[4] In a 2003 unpublished interview, Yogi B said of the album: "It was [a] living hell. We slept on the floor; there were times when we had to collect money from each one of us to buy Maggi noodles to eat". Although majority of the songs were recorded in English, the albums also has tracks recorded in Malay (for "Peluru Puitis"), Chinese (for "Kam Sang Tah Kong Chai") and Tamil (for "Vallavan").[4] The album was mixed by Illegal and mastered by Bernie Grundman in the United States.[1]

Style

Faridul Anwar Farinordin from the New Straits Times elaborated that It's a Nice Day to Be Alive is an "eclectic Asian hip hop album" with a combination of the "sounds of East and West through deft music arrangements and multi-lingual lyrics".[1]

Release and reception

Originally scheduled to be released in September 1997,[7] the album was officially released on 23 February 1998 to popular success. "Everything Changes" was released as the first single on 5 January, a month before the album's release. The album was sold over 15,000 units upon release.[8]

The album earned the group four nominations at the 6th Anugerah Industri Muzik and won the Best Local English Album,[9][10] while the music video for "Everything Changes" won the MTV Video Music Awards for the Southeast Asia Viewer's Choice Award category.[11][12]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Look Out Below..."1:49
2."Kuala Lumpur"3:55
3."Interlude"0:36
4."It's a Nice Day to be Alive" (feat. Sam of Innuendo)5:07
5."Something's On"4:31
6."Drama Department Presents..."1:30
7."Evils of Man" (feat. Flipside)4:37
8."Father Be With Us" (feat. Pot and Taj of Innuendo)4:04
9."You Say What 'Bout Hip Hop" (Take No. 1)0:44
10."Peluru Puitis"5:14
11."Run Again..."0:57
12."Approximate Detonation"5:19
13."Vallavan" (feat. Sri Ram)5:52
14."The Awakening..."1:02
15."Real for the World"5:50
16."You Say What 'Bout Hip-Hop" (Take No. 2)0:53
17."Kam Sang Tah Kong Chai" (feat. Jerica & David a.k.a. White Day and The Monk)4:59
18."You Say What 'Bout Hip-Hop" (Take No. 3)0:47
19."Everything Changes" (feat. Lady D of Emberz of Soul)4:44
20."Radio P.T.R.S."1:44
21."Ammunition Check" (feat. Dave Childs)4:53
22."Raw Gratitudes"2:57
Total length:71:54
Notes
  • "Kuala Lumpur" contains a sample from "Doraemon" by Intoxicated.
  • "Something's On" contains an interpolation of "La Di Da Di" by Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick.
  • "Run Again" contains a sample from "24 - Oriental Vocal" by Zero-G and a sample from Tracks 2–25 by Fatboy Slim.
  • "Approximate Detonation" contains an interpolation of "Eardrum Medicine (Side B)" by The Serial Wax Killer.
  • "Kam Sang Tah Kong Chai" containa a sample from "The Private Eyes" by Samuel Hui and a sample from "Change the Beat" by Beside.

Certifications

Country Certification Sales/Shipments
Malaysia Sold out 15,000[8]

Release history

Region Date Format Label
Malaysia 23 February 1998 CD, Digital download[13][14] Positive Tone, EMI Music Malaysia

References

  1. ^ a b c Farinordin, Faridul Anwar (1999-04-23). "Lunch With This Bunch". New Straits Times. Retrieved 2016-10-05.
  2. ^ Saniboey Mohd Ismail (7 February 1998). "Poetic pejuang hip hop". Harian Metro. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  3. ^ Yushaimi Yahaya (11 March 1998). "Poetic Ammo do justice". The Malay Mail. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  4. ^ a b c Cover sleeve production credits for It's a Nice Day to Be Alive (1998).
  5. ^ Zainal Alam Kadir (14 December 1994). "PMO rappers to release a single". New Straits Times. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  6. ^ Roslen Fadzil (12 December 1994). "PMO pecah tradisi". Harian Metro. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  7. ^ Marina Abdul Ghani (19 June 1997). "Poetic Ammo fires off a multi-lingual album". The Malay Mail. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
  8. ^ a b Francis Dass (19 February 2001). "Ammo gets more byte". New Straits Times. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
  9. ^ "Poetic Ammo beridentitikan tempatan". Utusan Online. Archived from the original on 2016-10-05. Retrieved 2016-10-05. (Malaysian)
  10. ^ Samat, Hafidah (July 25, 2000). "New " ammo" from Poetic". New Straits Times. Retrieved October 7, 2016 – via HighBeam Research.
  11. ^ "Poetic Ammo wins prized nomination". Sunday Mail. 11 July 1999. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
  12. ^ Marina Abdul Ghani (10 July 1999). "Poetic Ammo's our rep". The Malay Mail. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
  13. ^ "It's A Nice Day To Be Alive - album by Poetic Ammo". iTunes (MY). Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  14. ^ "It's A Nice Day To Be Alive, album by Poetic Ammo". Spotify. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
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